Paula Findlen was strolling under the Renaissance arcades of Via Zamboni in Bologna, Italy. A graduate student in history of ...

In this interview, architect Jenny Sabin shares her journey from artist to scientist and explains how biological systems can be applied in architecture.

Every morning in Miami, our fieldwork begins the same way. Fresh Cuban coffee and pastelitos—delicious Latin American ...

Our research takes place on a South Florida island roughly the size of an American football field – assuming we’re successful in sidestepping the American crocodiles that bask in the surrounding lake.

Each lizard is unique. Some have longer legs, others stronger jaws, and all behave slightly differently. The differences ...

A longstanding question in evolutionary biology is how sexual selection influences how entire genomes develop. Sexual ...

Feathers, essential for thermoregulation, flight, and communication in birds, originate from simple appendages known as proto-feathers, which were present in certain dinosaurs.By studying embryonic ...

Organelles in cells were originally often independent cells, which were incorporated by host cells and lost their independence in the course of evolution. Biologists are now examining the way in which ...

Studies have suggested that genes under strong sexual selection tend to evolve rapidly, particularly those associated with ...

"The crickets were sort of outpacing the flies' ability to evolve — like the crickets were evolving these songs that allowed them to sort of go undetected by flies, but to still communicate with ...

During mating, some male octopuses inject females with their potent venom to paralyse them – and avoid being eaten by their mates. Typically, animals use venom to kill prey or defend themselves ...

Dr. Thiry’s earlier studies, following his first visit to the site in 2017, showed that Palaeolithic people had deliberately shaped the sandstone to resemble a female form and manipulated fractures to ...